Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Some questions aboout the project

[Mason S. <ma...@st...>]

Hi Adam,

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Adam Dec <ada...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am considering to use Postgres XC in my project, I have some basic
> questions:
>
> 1. What is the project vision (in long term)?
>

Koichi Suzuki can probably best answer this, but since Postgres-XC is open
source, you have the freedom to modify it. As part of our vision for our
version, we have added data node to data node communication for MPP
parallelism, high availability, and multi-tenant security.

We want to make improvements for more flexibility.

Also, we are seeing that adding support for distributed constraints may be
important to help adoption.


> 2. How quick/often is the dev support in case of any critical issues?
>

At StormDB, we offer support for both XC and our StormDB version. For some
it is worthwhile to be able to contact someone when there are XC issues. We
have customers running specially patched XC versions to address issues, and
we have contributed these patches back.

Just letting you know there are options. We have spoken to other PostgreSQL
consulting companies that are considering offering XC support as well,
possibly having StormDB help out for level 2/3 support.



>  3. Is there any risk that project can be closed in the future?
>

Here, too, NTT Data can better answer from their point of view.  Even if
NTT Data pulls out of further development, StormDB plans on continuing
development and support of XC and StormDB.


> 4. Are there any examples of production deployments?
> 5. Do you have any project references?
>
>
We are supporting users in production, not sure if they want to discuss
publicly.


Regards,

-- 
Mason Sharp

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